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A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Right now, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, a 48-year-old spacecraft is hurtling through interstellar space at 38,000 miles per hour.
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on: 2026-03-30
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
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on: 2025-09-16
AirBending - Gesture-based MIDI Controller | Nanas Sound
Transform your hand gestures into expressive MIDI control with AirBending. Using your Mac's built-in camera, it tracks hand movements in real-time for a new level of musical expression.
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on: 2025-07-05
A receipt printer cured my procrastination
Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.
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on: 2025-06-12
DSHR's Blog: Archival Storage
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...
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on: 2025-03-18
How were the 70s versions of pong and similar games implemented without a programmable computer?
My Dad once commented "Back in the 70s - when Wozniak was working at Atari - they were building games using electronics - not programming computers."
As a Computer Science graduate withou...
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on: 2024-10-05
How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl...
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on: 2024-09-10
The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk
The high-profile creator of magnetic media gave it up nearly three decades ago
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on: 2024-04-03
dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder
Renew and Refill Bob Cassettes for 98% Cost Saving! - dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder
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on: 2024-03-07
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Self-Powered Cart
A club for Meccano enthusiasts in London, holding four meetings each year and a public Meccano Show in Falconwood.
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on: 2023-12-22
A Matter of Millimeters: The story of Qantas flight 32
On the 4th of November 2010, a Qantas Airbus A380 was rocked by a catastrophic engine failure minutes after takeoff from Singapore, hurling fragments of a turbine disk through its wings and fuselage…
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on: 2023-12-10
In the bad old days we had Punchcards. How did people deal with that?
In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science. I took Honors Calculus I a...
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on: 2023-11-07
Before Computers Were Logic Diagrams and Machines
I often think about ancient civilizations. I’m sure you do too. I cogitate and ruminate on all the people who lived, loved, and died, and I’m saddened by the fact that we no longer remember their n…
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on: 2023-10-25
Origins of the 3.5in Floppy Disk - YouTube
I got sucked into researching the origins of the 3.5in floppy disk after looking into one of my recent HP drives. That sent me on a long quest to better unde...
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on: 2023-10-23
How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot
Melding animation and reinforcement learning for free-ranging emotive performances
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on: 2023-10-11
New Taschen book ‘The Computer’ is a monumental survey
‘The Computer’ from Taschen is a richly illustrated history of society’s ever-evolving relationship with the silicon chip
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on: 2023-05-30
Dyson Hair Dryer Becomes Jet Engine | Hackaday
While Dyson makes some good products, they aren’t known for being economical. Case in point: [Integza] spent $500 on a hair dryer. While he does have a fine head of hair, we suspected he wasn…
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on: 2023-04-11
Tatjana van Vark - The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum
Building scientific instruments from the past, along with other technical projects.
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on: 2023-04-08
Secret colours of the Commodore 64
In 1991 I was fourteen years old. It would be fair to say I was obsessed with computers. I proudly owned a brown ‘breadbox’ Commodore 64 with an exotic upgrade - an Oceanic 5.25” disk drive:
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on: 2023-03-12
Why the floppy disk just won’t die | Ars Technica
A surprising number of industries, from embroidery to aviation, still use floppies.
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on: 2023-03-08
The Lost Art of Lacing Cable - The Broadcast Bridge - Connecting IT to Broa
Once, while visiting NBC Television studios in Manhattan’s 30 Rockefeller Center, I saw an abandoned elevator shaft with seemingly miles of different cables laced together. I took notice because it was such a rare sight — with the maze of work quite intricate and, in a way, beautiful.
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on: 2023-03-08
When Screens were Secondary: Mario Bellini's TCV 250 for Olivetti - Core77
Here in 2023 we carry small screens in our pocket--and have gigantic ones on our workstations, in our living rooms and even in our cars. So it might be difficult to imagine a time when screens were not as important, and even a desk-sized unit could have a tiny screen.
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on: 2023-01-31
Furby 1998 source code : David Hampton, Wayne Schulz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The source code of the firmware used in the 1998 Furby.The patent wrapper containing it was obtained and scanned by Sean Riddle (seanriddle.com).
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on: 2023-01-09
Audio CD ripping - optical drive accuracy listing
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on: 2022-11-07
Walkmp3rson Is An MP3 Player Like Sony Never Made
If you weren’t already well aware, the 90s are like, so hot right now, and that includes cassette tapes for some reason. (Even though we personally didn’t have a CD player until 1998, t…
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on: 2022-09-22
(...) — USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport & docks
Blog post — USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport & docks
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on: 2022-09-05
Carbon Copy Cloner LaCie Drive = Bootable/Restorable Backup - Chris Coyie
Stephen at work just got a new work laptop because his old one was dying. He ordered a fairly stock MacBook Pro one day, it arrived the next. He restored it from a “bootable backup” he …
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on: 2020-07-23
An always-available, online-capable Raspberry Pi in your pocket · ./jm
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on: 2019-11-03
How Xerox Invented the Copier and Artists Pushed It To Its Limits | Atlas O
The Xerox machine was a piece of technology that seemed to come out of nowhere.
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on: 2016-12-22
One Big Fluke › Realistic alternatives to Apple computers
An assessment of 16 laptops.
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on: 2016-11-01
Force RGB mode in Mac OS X to fix the picture quality of an external monitor | Mathew Inkson
Force RGB mode in Mac OS X to fix the picture quality of an external monitor
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on: 2016-10-08
PlatformIO: Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence
Unlock the true potential of embedded software development with PlatformIO's collaborative ecosystem, embracing declarative principles, test-driven methodologies, and modern toolchains for unrivaled success.
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on: 2016-02-20
CHIP Vs. Pi Zero: Which Sub-$10 Computer Is Better? | Hacker News
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on: 2015-11-29
Seinfeld Bass Riff Door Sensor
It reads from a micro SD card and randomly picks one of however many MP3s found. It uses a IR motion detector, and waits 7 seconds after playing a sound befo...
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on: 2015-11-28
The best VR films: these shorts will change the way you see cinema (Wired U
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on: 2015-11-05
Inside the labs where Netflix is trying to make televisions suck less
Where the company is trying to shape the future of its service, and the next TV you buy
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on: 2015-05-24
List of screw drives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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on: 2015-04-17
Subhasis Das's answer to Computer Science: How does a computer chip work? -
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on: 2014-10-06